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Review: Ta-Da! Goes From Accidental Hand Jobs to Quantum Immortality in 2,000 PowerPoint Slides
Ever since he was a kid, comedian Josh Pointed wanted to be a magician. He wasn’t what you’d call a instinctive with the card tricks, but he made up for it with chutzpah and a flair for dramatic entrances, coming into a room and blurting out “Ta-Da!”—which was one way of screaming out to the world, “Hi there, I’m gay.”
Anyone who has seen Sharp in the film Dicks: The Musical, which he co-wrote, knows that he is same-sex attracted, and in his new show ta-da! (now running at the Greenwich Home Theater) he comes off as extremely friendly too, even maniacally so. Holding a small clicker in one hand, he spends the first couple minutes welcoming us. “Hi. Hello. What’s up? How are you? Hi, hello, hi!,” he says rapid-fire as he clicks his clicker, every word appearing on a large, mauve-bordered screen behind him (scenic design by Meredith Ries and lighting by Cha See).
“Welcome to whatever the fuck this is,” he says, reading our minds, or at least seeming to. It’s a good first trick in a solo show that explodes the concept of what stand-up can be, should be, is. Part hilarious send-up of the fo
‘Looking’ Does Not Possess All The Answers To All Your Gay Questions
This is a recap. Spoilers ahead.
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Over the weekend, HBO debuted its new series Looking, about three fresh gay men in present-day San Francisco, and since then, critics and comments threads have tied themselves into knots pondering what it all means. Is the show making some kind of universal statement about the experience of gay men in this day and age? Is it some kind of State Of The Union Address on gay sexual politics? Does it honestly and accurately depict every detail of contemporary gay being, and if not, why not?
That’s a heavy burden of expectations for one little show, but it was always going to be this way. As a series with three openly homosexual protagonists, Looking is a relatively singular proposition in the current TV landscape so, for improve or worse, it comes with questions of representation and authenticity built right in. Put it this way: nobody watches New Girl, a comedy series where straight people hang out, get together up, shack up and break up, and asks if the show is a true and accurate depiction of the heterosexual experience.
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Talking with Alex Espinoza
Alex Espinoza examines his experiences with anonymous sexual acts within a broad historical and cultural context.
In Alex Espinoza’s Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime, the author relates his own sexual experiences as a young gay bloke and explores their ramifications in a historical context. Seen through Espinoza’s eyes and prose, cruising is indeed a radical proceed, one of defining himself and claiming space in a world that has not made room for LGBTQ individuals. Espinoza’s study provides a frame of reference that sets the tone for his intimate story and for his discussion of how cruising shapes cultures and individuals. Deemed “provocative, curious, and noteworthy” by Kirkus and “touching, resonant, and deeply felt” by the Los Angeles Review of Books, Espinoza’s work “invites us to think about the right to freedom of sexual expression and where it fits in within the larger aims of the LGBTQ community,” as LARB notes.
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A lecturer, Alta contributor, and active participant in literary communities such as Sandra Cisneros’s Macondo Writers Workshop and the Community of Writers,
How to explain that bisexuality (or pansexuality) is real
Bisexuality is a thing. It’s not just “a stop between gay and straight.” But how do you explain that to someone who just. simply. won’t. believe. you.
I am going to focus on the struggle many bisexual and pansexual folks have convincing their straight (or gay/lesbian) peers that bisexuality is an identity, not just a stopping point between two others. While I’m focusing this article on advice for bi- and pansexual folks, some of it applies to all sexuality discussions.
I have three main approaches you can take below, but I’d love to hear ideas for more ways to breach this subject in the comments below.
1. Point out that not only does bisexuality and pansexuality exist, but everyone you realize is probably at least a little bi-, whether they’ll admit/realize it or not.
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